The Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Defined workplace

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Defined workplace -

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Towards the end of last year I shared how the Internet of things (IoT) will be different in many ways for the enterprise market, as it will be for the consumer market. This is to understand an important difference, the current status of the hype and the attention focused on where the Internet of Things for the consumer cases, and consequently many of the business requirements and use cases can in the shuffle. want

For this update I lost a bit more of a business use case drill-down, and in particular how the Internet of Things is the Software Defined affect the workplace? The concept of software defined workplace is something that speak Citrix is ​​a good deal, as we see our customers moving to mobile workspaces.

What are the positive and negative effects of the Internet of Things on the Software Defined work?

This is the big question, and to begin, let us examine some of the benefits that the workplace Defined offer software. The Software Defined work will help you:

1. Connect people with the applications and services they
2. Ensure secure exchange of intellectual property
3. must work to reduce costs by requiring fewer devices, applications, infrastructure and property
4. workflows transform
5. to enable efficiency and speed of the changes for the business
inventing traditional jobs, a mobility transforms business create

now in the context of IoT enabled enterprise, they leave us at this show.

, the first two points that people refer to securely connect what they need to do their job. The intersection of people / places / things means that we have more information at our fingertips about employees and how they work, and the analysis of this information allows us to take advantage of contextual information, the better decisions about the user identity and user access enable . Since the workplace more virtual is, this measure may at information only help in ensuring that the workplace remains productive and secure, regardless of user location.

The third and fourth points relate to cost and efficiency. The amount of information from an IoT enabled office are collected, dwarf, which is collected today. With the new equipment, sensors and things information about users and infrastructure, the IoT company had produced a wealth of information at his fingertips have to identify the use of their infrastructure in the workplace. The orchestration of the device / things interactions and information flows all these devices / things, and the analysis of all this data and information is where the IoT enabled can add value work. Support of business opportunities out how to reduce costs and improve efficiency within the Office.

The fifth point speaks the workplace to mobility reinvent, and is the result of the previous points. Taking advantage of the situation, the context, orchestration and analytics business will allow, the way they work and to make up their work environment again, a mobility transformed companies to provide.

So while all this great and exciting sounds, I'm sure many of you think that it sounds easier said than done. You probably have questions and concerns about how realistic this vision is in the short term. Concerning about security and privacy? If this view of IT infrastructure support available? How much is it? How do you manage all this data without introducing too much complexity? These are good questions and ones that we want to address the question of our customers, as well as our own views share in upcoming blog posts - finally Citrix Software Defined a work is

So please stay tuned .. in the meantime, I will ask that, if you are interested in your opinion in the exchange, as well as in this survey take a look at how you leave a comment below. Even if you want to start now to experiment, you can have a look at an IoT platform allows you all to join in a required software defined Workplace things, services and data. Check the Citrix Octoblu platform and sign up for their beta preview

For more information on the impact of IoT workplace .:

• This is a recent article that some specific talks about examples of the impact of IoT to the business, including a "Smarter Office.
• This is an older article from Wired, it still provides a good look at how the Internet of things and with a particular focus to manage the workplace impact on strengthening user their work life ..
• Microsoft has recently published on the impact of the Internet of things in the modern workplace on this video. one of the main points the IoT devices / sensors do not change at work. Instead, they enable new business models and process changes that will change the workplace.
• What about the impact of government regulation on the Internet of Things? The Citrix Octoblu team weighs on some recent FTC proposals on their thoughts and how they would affect the company.
• Interested in your opinions on IoT to share at work? Please take a look at this Citrix survey.

Chris Witeck (@cwiteck) is Principal Technology Strategist at Citrix Labs. Citrix Labs is an applied research organization in Citrix. To update on what the Citrix Labs team follows, and projects the Labs team is working, you can subscribe to LinkedIn in the Citrix Trends and Innovation page.

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